1951
'51 OUT! 25th REUNION! JUNE 17-20, 1976!
As you know from the August 25 issue of "Fifty-One Fables," Chairman "Buck" Scott and his committee are hard at work to make our 25th fabulous. Those of you from other sections of the country can kill two birds with one stone by bringing your families back East to see where this country started 200 years ago.
When we returned to Hanover as "grand old seniors" 25 years ago, the country was once again at war, the Korean conflict having broken out during our summer vacation, less than five years after the Japanese surrender ended World War II.
After initial setbacks, Seoul was retaken as the College year began. The 38th parallel was crossed, initially only by South Korean forces President Truman and General MacArthur conferred on Wake Island. By the end of October U.N. troops were bearing down on the North Korean capitol; and South Korean forces were within 50 miles of the Machurian border.
The freshman class was the largest ever, 719 We were 597 strong, while there were 625 juniors and 653 sophomores. That adds up to 2,604 undergraduates. 198 graduate students at Tuck, Thayer, and the Med School, brought the College's total enrollment to 2,802.
Under construction in Hanover were the new Nugget on South Main St., and additions to the hospital and grade school. Wilder Dam was nearing completion. A Red & White Supermarket opened to challenge the Tanzi monopoly, while WTSL began broadcasting in competition with WDBS from a trailer at the base of its tower on the West Lebanon Road.
The football season began inauspiciously, with Johnny Clayton leading the Big Green to its first victory in a lopsided 27-7 win over Harvard in the fifth game. On that weekend, the Crimson put out a bogus late Saturday morning edition of the Daily D reporting Tuss McLaughry's "sudden resignation." The Harvard Lampoon's parody issue was seized by Boston and Cambridge police as "vulgar and obscene."
The season began with an unexpected 21-21 tie with Holy Cross followed by an equally unexpected initial 7-0 lead over Michigan at Ann Arbor. WDBS broadcast the game live for those who did not make the trek. Unfortunately, the final score was 27-7 Michigan. We actually outplayed the Wolverines in the first half; and the final statistics were not bad at all, e.g., our 15 first downs to their 12. Then came disappointing losses to Penn, 42-26, and Lehigh, 16-14, the latter the first home defeat since the 1947 Penn opener.
The freshmen won the new Tug of War when the rope broke on the sophomores' side, and someone put a match to the Dartmouth Night bonfire a night early. On Sunday night and Monday following the Holy Cross game, large numbers of freshmen came down with food poisoning. The DDA chief blamed the epidemic on too many peanuts consumed at the game, which few of the victims had eaten.
Thayer sold 21-meal weekly tickets for $12, 14 for $10.50. The Green Lantern offered 14 for $13, 10 for $10. The Inn Coffee shop advertised a special lunch for 850, dinner for 950; the Coolidge, full course dinners from $1.25. But inflation was setting in - all four barbershops announced an increase from 750 to 900.
Remember Kaiser automobiles? The Inn Garage advertised: "The Henry J - standard size car and only $ 1,299 - the most important new car in America!" To help pay for one, the DCAC was looking for referees for intramural football at 650 a game.
It was announced that dormitory room mail deliveries (remember all the other uses to which those mail slots were placed) would cease January 1. The size of the Campus Police Force doubled as Captain Gaudreau obtained an assistant. Great Issues, in its fourth year, was copied by the University of Texas, which also admitted its first black - pursuant to court order.
Mike Iovenko was named New England regional chairman for the National Student Association. Dick Pugh became battalion commander of our ROTC unit. Blaine Boyden was elected Inter-dormitory Council president; pierce McKee, secretary; and Bob Tomfohrde, treasurer. Pianist Hazel Scott opened the College Concert Series; and the Nugget showed Olivier's "Hamlet."
Turning to the present, Multibank Financial Corp., a $627 million deposit Massachusetts bank holding company, elected Sel Atherton vice chairman of the board, effective September 1. Sel has served on the Multibank board since its inception in 1972 and is chief executive officer of First Agricultural National . Bank of Berkshire County, a member bank. He is president of the Berkshire Hills Conference and a director of Arnold Print Works, Inc., Butternut Basin, Inc., Otter Development Corporation, and the Central Berkshire Chamber of Commerce.
Bill Brooks became managing director of s.a. Texaco Belgium n.v., located in Brussels, in March. Bill joined Texaco's sales organization upon graduation. He was promoted to assistant division sales manager in Chicago in 1964, and in 1968 manager - general services in the sales department - United States. In 1969 he was named advisor to the general manager of Elf Distribution, a Texaco affiliate, in Paris. In 1973 he was appointed general manager of Texaco Belgium.
In June TRW Inc. appointed Mike Monroney director of government relations. He directs the company's corporate office in Washington, D.C., and coordinates TRW relationships with federal, state and local governments. Mike joined TRW in April 1973 as director of federal relations after three years as a private government affairs consultant in Washington.
From 1967 through 1970, he was special assistant for Congressional relations to the president and chairman of the board of Comsat. For the six previous years, he was executive assistant to the Postmaster General, with responsibility for Congressional relations and coordination of White House and inter-governmental liaison for the U.S. Post Office Department.
Following graduation, Mike worked for five years as a staff reporter for the WashingtonPost and Times Herald, and for two years as administrative assistant to Congressman John Brademas of Indiana. He, wife Jocelyn, and their five children reside in Bethesda, Md.
In June, Bob Hackstaff became the third president in 87 years of Frederick P. Ross Co., Denver, Colo., commercial real estate organization. Illinois law professor Jeff O'Connell, who established a reputation . advocating no-fault .automobile insurance, now urges extending the concept to products and services. A Sunday New York Times book review concluded: "The O'Connell scheme sounds simple enough, but it is complicated in fact and requires the detailed explanation now available in his book; only the full length treatment will convince the suspicious that a no-fault plan is preferable to business-as-usual tort law."
In July, Ford named Ben Bidwell, who had been vice president and general manager of the Ford division, vice president of the sales group for the company's North American automotive operations. In that capacity, Ben took an optimistic view on economic recovery as quoted in an August New York Times article: "We were father surprised by the auto market in July. ... In was a very strong month. ... 1976 is going to be better than 1975."
... On to football season.
1950 father-daughter team of Stu andPamela Young at Reunion in the Bema.
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